scholarly journals PENEMUAN ROCK ART BARU DI KAWASAN KARST DESA REJOSARI, KECAMATAN MANTEWE, KABUPATEN TANAH BUMBU, PROVINSI KALIMANTAN SELATAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Bambang Sugiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Karst Area ◽  
Interesting Issue ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Wide Part ◽  
Prehistoric Culture

>Kawasan karst di Desa Rejosari, Kecamatan Mantewe, Kabupaten Tanah Bumbu, Provinsi Kalimantan Selatan, merupakan bagian dari gugusan karst Mantewe yang membentang luas. Penelitian arkeologi prasejarah pada kawasan karst ini sudah dimulai sejak tahun 2008, di wilayah Desa Mantewe, Desa Bulurejo, Desa Dukuhrejo, dan Desa Rejosari. Potensi budaya prasejarah yang ada pada kawasan karst Mantewe, sangat bagus, seperti situs Gua Sugung (Desa Mantewe), Gua Payung (Desa Bulurejo), dan Gua Bangkai (Desa Dukuhrejo), serta gambar cadas dengan warna hitam pada beberapa gua dan ceruk terutama pada kawasan karst Desa Dukuhrejo. Permasalahan dalam penenelitian ini adalah apakah budaya rock art itu juga ada pada kawasan karst di Desa Rejosari. Metode survei dan ekskavasi dilakukan dalam proses pengumpulan data. Hasil penelitian memperlihatkan adanya kekayaan lukisan dinding gua di Rejosari, yang dapat digunakan untuk melengkapi data arkeologi prasejarah yang ada pada kawasan karst Mantewe secara umum, termasuk budaya rock art yang ada di dalamnya. The karst area in Rejosari Village, Mantewe District, Tanah Bumbu Regency, South Kalimantan Province, is the stretches out wide part of Mantewe karst cluster. Prehistoric archaeological researches on this karst area have been conducted since 2008, starting from the karst area of Mantewe Village, Bulurejo Village, Dukuhrejo Village, and in 2018 was entering Rejosari Village area. The potential of prehistoric culture in the karst is remarkable, such as the existences of Sugung Cave (Mantewe Village), Payung Cave (Bulurejo Village), and Bangkai Cave (Dukuhrejo Village), and also the black of rock art or rock drawings in some caves and niches, especially in Dukuhrejo Village. An interesting issue is filed in this research is whether the rock art culture also exists in Rejosari Village. The method of survey and excavation were used for collecting data in Rejosari karst area. The results suggest that rock art at Rejosari are treasure, that can be complement the existing prehistoric archaeological data in the Mantewe karst area in general, including the rock art culture that exists therein.

scholarly journals Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. eabd4648
Author(s):  
Adam Brumm ◽  
Adhi Agus Oktaviana ◽  
Basran Burhan ◽  
Budianto Hakim ◽  
Rustan Lebe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Karst Area ◽  
Uranium Series ◽  
Island Southeast Asia ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Figurative Painting ◽  
Uranium Series Dating ◽  
Cave Paintings ◽  
Minimum Age ◽  
Cave Art

Indonesia harbors some of the oldest known surviving cave art. Previously, the earliest dated rock art from this region was a figurative painting of a Sulawesi warty pig (Sus celebensis). This image from Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 in the limestone karsts of Maros-Pangkep, South Sulawesi, was created at least 43,900 years ago (43.9 ka) based on Uranium-series dating. Here, we report the Uranium-series dating of two figurative cave paintings of Sulawesi warty pigs recently discovered in the same karst area. The oldest, with a minimum age of 45.5 ka, is from Leang Tedongnge. The second image, from Leang Balangajia 1, dates to at least 32 ka. To our knowledge, the animal painting from Leang Tedongnge is the earliest known representational work of art in the world. There is no reason to suppose, however, that this early rock art is a unique example in Island Southeast Asia or the wider region.

Comments on Archaeological Data Requirements and Research strategy

1971 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Struever
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Archeological Evidence ◽  
Prehistoric Culture ◽  
The One ◽  
Data Requirements

AbstractThe attempt to delineate the processes underlying cultural evolution has become a central problem for archaeology today. Yet, present attempts to explain prehistoric culture change are based on exceedingly fragmentary archeological evidence, a fact resulting partly from inappropriate research strategies and partly from the “one-man scholar” basis on which archaeological research has been traditionally organized.This paper shows that certain long-held assumptions about the nature of culture which have governed excavation strategy and methods limit the value of currently existing data for attacking processual questions. The paper also examines both the quality of archaeological data required for discovering evolutionary process and the research strategies necessary for recovering these data. It argues that these research strategies cannot be put into effect unless the scale of archaeological staff, facilities, and funding increases greatly, and equally important, unless the concept of how research is organized changes.

scholarly journals The Pilgrimage Concept in the Caribbean?

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-110
Author(s):  
Michele Hayward ◽  
Michael Cinquino ◽  
Frank Schieppati ◽  
Donald Smith
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Late Phase ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
Diverse Population ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
The Caribbean

Espenshade (2014) has argued that pre-Columbian major ballcourts/plazas on Puerto Rico, particularly with rock art, could be considered special religious places. He proposes that these precincts were being transformed from locations of communal social and ceremonial activities integrating diverse population segments to increasingly restricted-to-religious functions as shrines or pilgrimage centers serving a greatly reduced local population by the end of the pre-colonial period. The extent of incorporation of pre-colonial late phase plazas into a formal pilgrimage round for the Puerto Rico island will be examined employing archaeological data from both the Greater and Lesser Antilles. We conclude that while Espenshade’s particular argument for enclosures-as-pilgrimage sites may or may not be appropriate, simply raising the issue prompts a wider consideration of the region’s ritual structure involving rock art and non-rock art sites.

Cushitic and Nilotic Prehistory: New Archaeological Evidence from North-West Kenya

1979 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. M. Lynch ◽  
L. H. Robbins
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Lake Turkana ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
North West ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
First Millennium

Recent archaeological research conducted west of Lake Turkana, Kenya has shed new light on the prehistory of eastern Cushitic and Nilotic speakers in East Africa. The Namoratunga cemetery and rock art sites, dated to about 300 B.C., are clearly related to the prehistory of Eastern Cushitic speakers. The newly defined Turkwell cultural tradition, dated to the first millenniuma.d., is associated with eastern Nilotic prehistory. Lopoy, a large lakeside fishing and pastoralist settlement, is discussed in terms of eastern Nilotic prehistory. The archaeological data agrees with the independent findings of historical linguistics.

scholarly journals NEW APPROACH IN AN EMBLEMATIC SITE: THE PALEOLITHIC CAVE OF LA MOUTHE (DORDOGNE, FRANCE)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Petrognani
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Prehistoric Art ◽  
The Face ◽  
Paleolithic Art ◽  
3D Digitization ◽  
A Current

Our project for the cave of La Mouthe incorporates a current dynamic of rereading rock art sites, and developing new problems of analysis. The knowledge acquired since the 1990s on archaeological data, with the discovery of major sites for prehistoric art, as well as methodological, with advances in radiocarbon dating, microanalyses of materials and context, or 3D digitization, have profoundly renewed our perception of prehistoric art. In the face of these new data, the re-reading of previously studied sites brings many new data, and a valuable re-reading of the graphic contexts of Paleolithic art. Marsoulas, La Baume-Latrone, the Bernoux fully materialize this dynamic. Our approach therefore aims to place the cave of La Mouthe in the context of its chrono-cultural context. Updating the inventory of its representations through a prospecting operation on the walls and rock art surveys is necessary but insufficient in this overall archaeological approach. The review of the exhumed material, the control of the various interventions past in situ, and a better consideration of the karstological and geomorphological problems will allow in the coming years to put in place a decisive argument with a view to carry out possible new internal or external excavations.

scholarly journals Analysis of portable rock art from Foz do Medal (Northwest Iberia): Magdalenian images of horses and aurochs

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia SOARES DE FIGUEIREDO ◽  
Natália BOTICA ◽  
Primitiva BUENO RAMIREZ ◽  
Anna TSOUPRA ◽  
José MIRÃO
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Preliminary Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multiple Approach ◽  
The One ◽  
Social Importance ◽  
Cave Art

Studies focusing on Palaeolithic portable rock art have a long tradition in Europe. Nevertheless, they tend to only focus over formal and stylistic criteria of the motifs, important as they provide chronologies for cave art. This article proposes a multiple approach to a sample of 25 engraved plaques of the Foz do Medal archaeological site, where horses and aurochs were depicted, in order to construct a preliminary model able to guide the future analysis of the whole collection composed of more than 1500 fragments. On the one hand, relevant archaeological data was collected and systematized into a database that can be subjected to statistical analysis, for which we develop different variables and their respective attributes. On the other hand, laboratory techniques of analysis and examination of materials were applied, valuing the motifs details, their potential surface treatment by fire or pigments ornamentation, as well as the identification of raw materials and their origins. In this article, we present the obtained results, which allow us to propose some hypotheses regarding the social importance of this specific kind of artefact, as well as its possible manipulations.

scholarly journals A UTILIZAÇÃO DE ADORNOS CORPORAIS NA PRÉ- HISTÓRIA DA ÁREA ARQUEOLÓGICA DO SERIDÓ – RN

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Daniela Cisneiros ◽  
Nathalia Nogueira ◽  
Camila Santos
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Funerary Rituals ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Graphic Elements

Os adornos corporais estão entre as primeiras manifestações simbólicas produzidas pelo Homo sapiens e evidenciadas em dados arqueológicos. São fontes portadoras de informações sobre tecnologia e identidade. A região do Seridó apresenta em seu acervo arqueológico elementos materiais e gráficos que atestam o uso desses adornos na pré-história. O presente artigo tem por objetivo apresentar as tipologias, usos e funções dos adornos nos contextos funerários e rupestres do Seridó Potiguar. Os dados de 11 sítios analisados permitiram inferir que os grupos que habitaram a região em períodos pré-históricos utilizavam-se de adornos de diversas tipologias (adornos de cabeça, colares e pingentes); confeccionados com diferentes matérias-primas e utilizados em distintos contextos (rituais funerários, caça, sexo e violência). THE USE OF PERSONAL ORNAMENTS IN PREHISTORY OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREA OF SERIDÓ - RN  ABSTRACTThe personal ornaments are among the first symbolic manifestations produced by Homo sapiens sapiens and manifested in archaeological data. They are sources of information about technology and identity. The Seridó region has material and graphic elements in its archaeological collection that attest to the use of ornaments in prehistory. This paper aimsto present the types, uses, and functions of ornaments in the funerary and rock art of Seridó Potiguar. The data from 11 analyzed sites allowed us to infer that the groups that inhabited the region in prehistoric periods used ornaments of different types (head ornaments, necklaces, and pendants) made with different raw materials and used in different contexts (funerary rituals, hunting, sex, and violence).Keywords: Personal ornaments; Seridó Prehistory; Rock Art

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOUTHERNMOST AFRICA FROM c. 2000 BP TO THE EARLY 1800s: A REVIEW OF RECENT RESEARCH

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER MITCHELL ◽  
GAVIN WHITELAW
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Complex Societies ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Excellent Opportunity ◽  
The Past

Southernmost Africa (here meaning South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland) provides an excellent opportunity for investigating the relations between farming, herding and hunting-gathering communities over the past 2,000 years, as well as the development of societies committed to food production and their increasing engagement with the wider world through systems of exchange spanning the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This paper surveys and evaluates the archaeological research relevant to these communities and issues carried out in the region since the early 1990s. Among other themes discussed are the processes responsible for the emergence and transformation of pastoralist societies (principally in the Cape), the ways in which rock art is increasingly being incorporated with other forms of archaeological data to build a more socially informed view of the past, the analytical strength and potential of ethnographically informed understandings of past farming societies and the important contribution that recent research on the development of complex societies in the Shashe-Limpopo Basin can make to comparative studies of state formation.

Seeing and Construing: The Making and ‘Meaning’ of a Southern African Rock Art Motif

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Lewis-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Altered States Of Consciousness ◽  
Altered States ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
States Of Consciousness

The construction of archaeological arguments is a continuing source of concern. In comparatively recent years archaeological data have come to be seen as a text that can in some sense be ‘read’. Rejecting this approach in favour of arguments constructed by the intertwining of disparate strands of evidence, this article explores the possible meanings of a southern African rock art motif. Variations in the art itself, nineteenth- and twentieth-century San ethnography and studies of altered states of consciousness combine to suggest that this motif, though idiosyncratically depicted by different artists, was associated with the ways in which San shamans broke through into the spiritual realm.

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